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I've always used, a tucked blood to the hook for co-polymer and mono, and a grinner or uni on flurocarbon, for the cast itself I use a surgeons to create the tapers as this gives me a drop at every knot should I need it, they've never let me down yet and I've had some big fish on very light leaders, I took a 22lb spring salmon on a 4lb tippet a year gone last april, I was fishing for small brownies, when this thing just hooked itself and took off stripping all the line and 170 yards of backing, the rod I was using at the time was a 6# Hardy Angel, and it stopped the fish, but it still took 45mins to land it, but the knots held okay

Just a little variation of a popular fly, I found this winter on the stil waters of the North of England, and the Scottish Borders the trout seemed to be wanting anything that had a blue tinge to it, so this came about, hope you like it

It has a wing that's tied over the back so I assume it's a wet, But that's not the issue, all I was pointing out was that the young lady made no claim to it being the original pattern, she said it was her first attempt at a north country spider, and for a first attempt it was extremely good, the tying and finish were fine, a very good first attempt indeed, and getting the patterns right is something you develop later, I aways encourage new flytyers, it gives them the confidence to continue so what would you call this fly, is it a wet or a spider ? The answer is it's what I want it to be

Sorry Tango but I beg to differ, Ladystrange, was making a spider pattern of the Woodcock and green, and she has it right, it is a spider pattern, I fish the rivers these flies were originally created for in england, and although the original was dressed with a wing to be fished wet, it is as often the case that a spider pattern fished either on the surface or just in the film produces better takes, and we over here do tend to change patterns to suit conditions, we woud never go river fishing without a variation of every fly we intend to fish

Hi everyone, Just like to introduce myself, I'm from Northumberland in the UK, found your site whilst browsing and thought I'd join, you never know we might be able to help each other out as we have a forum over here on the same lines the web address is http://www.gameangler.co.uk I'll post regular so speak to you soon By the way this is I Fishietales